Warm Memories Of Overseas Modeling Work During The Cold War
Jacqueline Chester and her granddaughter, Victoria Vassel, talked in the StoryCorps Atlanta booth.
COURTESY OF STORYCORPS ATLANTA
Jacqueline Chester, 79, was a teenager when she realized she had model potential.
She participated in several fashion shows in her native New York before being invited to model for a seven-week stint overseas.
In the StoryCorps Atlanta booth, she tells her 20-year-old granddaughter, Victoria Vassel, about a rather unusual job for a young African-American woman to take during the early years of the Cold War.
This story was recorded in partnership with the Atlanta History Center, which hosts Atlanta’s StoryCorps Booth
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